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Family Therapy: Psychosocial Development and Family Transitions - Quintas F 2025

the subject guide to family therapy provides information on resources available from the Martin and Gail Press NSU Healths Library, both in the library and online, related to family therapy.

Week 1 (8/18) Introduction

Review Course Syllabus Introductions 

 

Week 2 (8/25) Power, Privilege, and Opression

Review of System Theory (Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory) 

Adams et al (2018) pages 16 – 64

 

Adams et al. (2018) pages 604-634 

McGoldrick & Hardy (2019) ch 33 and 34 

McGoldrick & Hardy (2019) ch 36?McDowell, T., Knudson-Martin, C., & Bermudez, J. M. (2019). Third-order thinking in family therapy: Addressing social justice across family therapy practice. Family Process, 58(1), 9-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12383

Week 3 (9/1) NO Class Labor Day

Week 4 (9/8) Social Identities and Genograms

Adams et al (2018) pages 7-16 Hardy, K. V., & Laszloffy, T. A. (1995). The cultural genogram: Key to training culturally competent family therapists. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy,?21(3), 227-237.?https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0606.1995.tb00158.x 

Belous, C. K., Timm, T. M., Chee, G., & Whitehead, M. R. (2012). Revisiting the sexual genogram.?The American Journal of Family Therapy,?40(4), 281-296. https://doi.org/10.1080/01926187.2011.627317 

Week 5 (9/15) Racism and Racial Identity Identity Development

Adams et al (2018) pages 74-77; 87-111 

McGoldrick & Hardy (2019) select 3 chapters to read from Racial Identity section (ch. 10-18 skip ch. 14-16) 

Sabnani, H. B., Ponterotto, J. G., & Borodovsky, L. G. (1991). White racial identity development and cross-cultural counselor training: A stage model. The Counseling Psychologist, 19(1), 76-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000091191007

Week 6 (9/22) Classism and Social Class

Adams et al (2018) pages 163-191 

McGoldrick & Harding (2019) ch 3, 4, & 6 

Week 7 (9/29) Reading week/no class

Week 8 (10/6) Sexism, Heterosexism and Cisgenderism

Adams et al (2018) pages 381-402

Ellis, É., & Bermúdez, J. M. (2021). Funhouse mirror reflections: Resisting internalized sexism in family therapy and building a women-affirming practice. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 33(3), 223-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/08952833.2020.1717903

Week 9 (10/15) Ableism, Adultism/Ageism Spirituality/Religious Oppression?

Adams et al (2018) pages 467-485; 502-503

Smart, J. F., & Smart, D. W. (2006). Models of disability: Implications for the counseling profession.?Journal of Counseling & Development, 84(1), 29-40. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6678.2006.tb00377.x 

Adams et al. (2018) pages 545-558; 567-576 Green, S. L., & Dorr, N. (2016).


 

Changing attitudes toward older adults through a simulated aging exercise: implications for family therapy. Women & Therapy, 39(1-2), 69-85.https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2016.1116314


 

Adams et al. (2018) pages 247-270

McGoldrick & Hardy (2019) ch 5 and 24

Week 10 (10/20) 6 Presentations

Week 11 (10/27) 6 Presentations

Week 12 (11/3) 6 Presentations

Week 13 (11/10) 6 Presentations

Week 14 (11/17) 3 Presentations

Week 15 (11/24) Consultation Week

Consultation week. No class.